Amira El Sayed is an Austrian actress and

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based in

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, Austria. Amira El Sayed was born on the 3 June 1991 in Innsbruck, Austria. She is the only child of Erika El Sayed, an Austrian language and history teacher and Adel El Sayed, a university teacher and political scientist from

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. Amira was raised bilingual and is a native speaker of both

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and

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. She spent her early years living in

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, Egypt before she moved back to Innsbruck with her parents. At the age of 16 Amira moved to

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where she later studied acting at the renowned Max Reinhardt Seminar. Amongst others she was taught by

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. She left University in the first year to play a part in Paul Schrader’s ''The Cleopatra Club'', a theatre play directed by Rupert Henning, where she was discovered by her first agent. Her first international film was 2016's ''

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'', starring

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and directed by

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. In 2017, she went on to appear in the Swiss television series Wilder ( SRF) and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk film Der Richter (director Markus Imboden). Her most recent work involves roles in Ransom in 2018,

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'' in 2018,

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in 2019, Hanna (TV series) in 2021 and the

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Retrieved 2022-07-24 Amira El Sayed is also the author of the book, titled ''Klang der Freiheit'' (''The Sound of Freedom'') which was published in 2013 by the Austrian publishing house Letter P.P: Amira El Sayed''
Retrieved 2022-07-24 She currently lives in Vienna, Austria.

Filmography

Publications

* ''Klang der Freiheit

Letter P, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503168-4-1

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sayed, Amira Living people Austrian actresses 1991 births Actors from Innsbruck Actresses from Berlin Austrian people of Egyptian descent Austrian women writers